Talks

How and where does copyright work? Ever since the beginnings of the cultural industry, it has been repeatedly called into question – and constantly expanded – by new media technologies and postcolonial discourses. Legal and copying practices have shaped global innovation and the distribution of music. When it comes to the ethics and aesthetics of copying, normative contradictions and practical conflicts, money and power, how does copyright influence the conditions of creative work? What should it, what can it protect? How are works and authorship defined? And when is it about ethics, when about business?

Geraldine Juárez: There’s a little Give and Take (2018)

As Ravi Sundaram notes in Pirate Modernity, the surface is where copyright and piracy recognize each other. There is a little give and take is a surface installation locating the desires, threats and promises of piracy since the introduction of the Compact Disc® in the global mediascape.

Installation

Geraldine Juàrez & Jace Clayton: Children of NAFTA (2018)

Both NAFTA and the World Wide Web rose to the surface in 1994. Since then, the two protocols have birthed new markets, new piracies, and new crimes. Now, a quarter-century later, these protocols are crumbling. What is the state of the copy cultures they helped promote? Children of NAFTA is a new sonic collaboration between Geraldine Juárez and Jace Clayton. If life gives you signals, make copies.